Parafoveal magnification: Visual acuity does not modulate the perceptual span in reading.
- Miellet, Sebastien Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK
- O'Donnell, Patrick, J. Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK
- Sereno, Sara, C. Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK
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2009
Published in:
- Psychological Science. - 2009, vol. 20, no. 6, p. 721-728
English
Models of eye guidance in reading rely on the concept of the perceptual span—the amount of information perceived during a single eye fixation, which is considered to be a consequence of visual and attentional constraints. To directly investigate attentional mechanisms underlying the perceptual span, we implemented a new reading paradigm—parafoveal magnification (PM)— that compensates for how visual acuity drops off as a function of retinal eccentricity. On each fixation and in real time, parafoveal text is magnified to equalize its perceptual impact with that of concurrent foveal text. Experiment 1 demonstrated that PM does not increase the amount of text that is processed, supporting an attentional-based account of eye movements in reading. Experiment 2 explored a contentious issue that differentiates competing models of eye movement control and showed that, even when parafoveal information is enlarged, visual attention in reading is allocated in a serial fashion from word to word.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département de Psychologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Psychology
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- RERO DOC 27178
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/301978
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